The family tree of earthly ancestors was really not important; what was important was the family tree of the children of God He planted on Calvary.
Trees are corrupting our parks. They should be arrested for loitering. For deciduous trees, add littering and indecent exposure to that list of offenses.
It's come at last", she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache.
You must teach the child of the signs that come to the women of our family when there is trouble and death to be.
Dear God,’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.
But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.
She sat in the sunshine watching the life on the street and guarding within herself, her own mystery of life.
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
The very idea of "managing" a forest in the first place is oxymoronic, because a forest is an ecosystem that is by definition self-managing.
… the best time to plant a tree is always twenty years ago. If, for some reason, you did not plant it then, the next best time to plant a tree is now.
Caring about him was like trying to love a tree stump - a cold, mean-spirited paternalistic tree stump. With fungus.
27. Trees I shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree.
Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.
I'm sort of a girly guy in that I love cats, rainbows, sunsets, flowers, trees, and sex. But not sex with trees.
I love petting trees. Especially if they are fir trees. Single lovers should be good with their hands. I admire Bigfoot.
I’m like a tree frog when it comes to birthdays. Basically, my thoughts on birthdays can be summed up in two words: tree and frog.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
While bringing about reforms and improving institutions, we have to be cautious that while shaking the tree to remove the bad fruit, we do not bring down the tree itself.
Even a lamb can defend itself, but a tree cannot even do that. If you are a just person, you never harm any tree, those defenceless angels!
What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.
